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UC School of Education senior Allison Korniak has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Student Program award to teach English in the Czech Republic for a year following her graduation in May.
July 1, 2026
UC Professor Ashley Merianos talks to U.S. News & World Report about her study that found that excessive use of social media exacerbates feelings of loneliness among college students. UC is taking preventive steps to give students social outlets.
June 29, 2026
Nelly Elsayed, associate professor in the UC School of Information Technology, published an article in the Journal of Information Security and Applications, which suggests that generative AI may be an ally in strengthening ransomware defense. Her work was cited by the online platform Securities.io.
June 24, 2026
UC Dance Team alum and middle childhood education grad Brooke Atwood joins the Cincinnati Ben-Gals, bringing her Bearcats spirit to the Bengals’ sidelines.
June 16, 2026
President Neville Pinto announces appointment of Dr. Loren Wold as UC's next Vice President for Research.
June 11, 2026
A native of Muribenua village on Nikunau island in Kiribati, Amota Ataneka could have led a life of subsistence fishing on his home island of less than 2,000 inhabitants. But his passion for education led him to various academic pursuits, including the recent announcement he'd been awarded one of only 35 National Academy of Education (NAEd)/Spencer Dissertation Fellowships.
June 5, 2026
The Ohio Cyber Range Institute at the University of Cincinnati recently received $227,000 from the Ohio Controlling Board., reported Local 12 News. The OCRI manages the Ohio Cyber Range on behalf of the state. It is a statewide, collaborative network that supports cybersecurity programs across Ohio.
This episode welcomes gold medal-winning Olympic runner, former teacher, author and motivational speaker Mary Wineberg to the podcast. Born in Brooklyn, she was brought to Cincinnati at a young age, where she was educated in the Cincinnati Public School system. She discovered running in high school and went to college at UC on an athletic scholarship, and after college she began the rigorous work of training for the Olympics—a feat she attained in 2008, when she earned a gold medal running in the first leg for the U.S. Women's 4 × 400m relay. She tells us about her Olympic experience and much more in this episode of "CECH Chats."
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